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SLEEPING GAR,

No. 313,576. Patented Mar. 101885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT rrrcn.

JAMES F. GOIJBY, OF BUFFALO, NEWV YORK.

SLEEPING-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,576, dated March 10, 1885.

7 Application filed March 20, 1884. fNo model.)

they may be made of sufficient length to en-.'

able passengers to lie down at full length on them; second, to provide such an arrangement of transverse seats in a railway-car that one set will occupy one side of one-half of the car, and the other set will occupy the other side of the other half of thecar, thus effecting an equal distribution of the weight; third, to provide, in addition to the transverse seats in the car, seats running in a longitudinal direction, which are also of sufficient length to enable a passenger to lie down at full length, and arranged relatively in the same manner as the transverse seats; and, fourth, to provide a support for the seat, a portion of which will also serve the purpose of a head-rest.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and on which the same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding features, Figure 1 represents a plan View of the flooring of a railway-car, showing my improved manner of arranging the seats; Fig. 2, a cross-sectional view of a portion of the car, showing one of the transverse seats in front elevation and one of the longitudinal seats in end elevation; Fig. 3, a plan View of the seat-frame with the upholstering removed; Fig. 4,21. detail perspective view of the support and head-rest, and Fig. 5 a modified form of the head-rest.

The letter A designates a car-flooring,which may be of the ordinary or any approved construction, on which I mount two sets of transverse seats and two sets of longitudinal seats. The former of these seats are placed so that one set will occupy one side of one-half of the car, and the other set will occupy the other side of the other half of the car. The object of this arrangement is to afford room for seats of such length as to enable persons to lie down upon them at full length, and also to effect an equal division of the weight on either side of the car. The longitudinal sets of seats are arranged relatively with the other in the same manner as the transverse seats are relatively arranged. set in the longitudinal series are contiguous one to the other. Thetransverse seats are constructed of a frame, B, of metal or of wood,-

and provided with a series of apertures. Secured to these apertures are a series of transverse curled or spiral wire springs, which collectively form a support for the mattress or cushion, to be presently. described.

The letter 0 refers to the end pieces of the respective seats, the same being preferably convenient and comfortable support for they head, and to practically lengthen the seats by reason of their overhang. They are provided with a series of apertures, to which are connected the springs, as above described in reference to the frame proper of the seats. This piece 0 is further provided, at the upper end of the part which constitutes the supportinglegs, with an offset adapted to receive and sustain the adjacent end of the frame B. The opposite end of this frame is supported by a leg, D, the upper portion of which terminates in an arm of any approved configuration. These seats are provided with the usual backs, E, the arms by which they are pivotally connected with the seat being in this instance'attached to a convenient part of the head-rest and to the seat-arm.

The letter F refers to thelongitudinal seats, the frames of which are constructed in the manner above described. The head-rests are also constructed in the same manner, save that in this instance they are provided with lugs H instead of with the offset, whereby the supports for the frames are provided.

The several seats of each figuration, so as to be secured to the flooring i or to the sides of the car, as represented in Fig. 2. The cushions, which are fitted upon the seats, are supported by the springs secured to the frame of the seat and to the head-rest, and are of such configuration as to evenly and smoothly cover the same.

It will be observed that by reason of the above arrangement the seats cannot only be made long enough to accommodate a person in a lying posture, and the weight equally distributed over the car, but that ample room is left to form a proper passage-way 0r aisle. This arrangement practically affords the same facilities for rest and sleep at night .in a passenger-car of the ordinary type as is afforded by a sleeping-car.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire .to secure by Letters Patent, is p i 1. In a railway-car, the sets of transverse seats arranged so that one set will occupy more than one-half the width of one portion of the car, and the otherset will occupy more than one-half the width of the other portion of the car, and the sets of longitudinal seats arranged each to occupy the portion of the car opposite the respective transverse seats.

2. In a railway-car, the combination, with.

the sets of transverse seats so arranged that one set will occupy more than one-half of the width of one portion of the car, and the other set will occupy more than one-half the width of the other portion of the car, the respective seats of each set being provided with overhanging upwardly-curved head-rests, of the 4 sets of longitudinal seats, the seats of the respective sets being contiguous one to the other, and each provided with upwardly curved overhanging head-rests, and each set arranged to occupy the portions of the car opposite the 5 respective sets of transverse seats.

3. In a railway-car, the sets of longitudinal seats arranged so that one set will occupy one side of one portion of the car, and the other set the other side of the other portion of the 5 car, the seats of the respective sets being contiguous one to the other, and each provided with an upwardly-curved overhanging headrest.

4. In a railway-car seat, the combination, with the frame proper, of the combined headrest and supporting-legs constructed of one piece.

5. In a railway-car seat, the combination, with the frame proper, having a series of 6 transverse springs secured thereto, of the combined head-rest and supporting-legs, having an offset to which the frame is secured, and a series of transverse springs secured thereto.

6. Ina railway-carseat, the combination of 70 the seat proper with the upwardly -curved overhanging head-rest, forming an elongation of the seat. 7

7. In. a car-seat, the combined head-rest and supporting-legs constructed of one piece, and having a part adapted to receive and sustain the seat.

In testimony whereof I .aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES F. COLBY.

WVitnesses:

GEO. B. HUME, S. M. WELCH, Jr. 

